This Week in Elasticsearch - November 26, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch Core

Logging: restrict files loaded as logging configuration based on their suffix (#7457, master, 1.x and 1.4)

Geo: Add LinearRing and LineString validity checks as defined by GeoJSON to ensure valid polygons are specified at parse time (#8433, master, 1.x, 1.4 and 1.3)

Core: Added query/filter wrapper that builds the actual query to be executed on the last possible moment to aid with index aliases and percolator queries using now date expression (#8534, master, 1.x, 1.4 and 1.3)

Aggregations: Do not take deleted documents into account in aggregations filters (#8540, master and 1.x)

Geo: Fix for geo_shape query with polygon from -180/90 to 180/-90 (#8521, master and 1.x)

Core: Fields defined in the _default_ mapping of an index template should be picked up when an index alias filter is parsed if a new index is introduced when a document is indexed into an index that doesn't exist yet (#8577, master, 1.x and 1.4)

Want to learn more about testing automation for distributed applications? Isabel Drost-Fromm's latest paper is a great place to start! Isabel will show you how we at Elasticsearch ensure quality checks are run often enough to speed up failure discovery, while still keeping the runtime of the whole test suite low enough for our developers to be able to run the test suite in their local development environment.

Looking to upgrade to the latest version of Elasticsearch? What a splendid (and secure!) idea. Konrad Beiske has some great tips, tricks and pointers.

Want a walk through of Sense's UI? Itamar Syn-Hershko's recent article has you covered.

Andrew Whitby shared some tips on using Elasticsearch's domain name analyzer/tokernizer.

Where to Find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Czech Republic

Our very own Honza Kral and Karel Minarik will speak at the next Elasticsearch CZ Meetup, taking place in Prague tomorrow, November 27 from 7-10 PM. Register now to save your place.

France

The first ever Elasticsearch France Meetup in Lyon will be on December 4. Schedule is still in progress, but you can register now to save your place.

The Elasticsearch France Meetup will return to Paris for Meetup #11 on December 17. Registration opens two weeks prior to the event, so stay tuned to this page to register and save your place.

United Kingdom

The Cambridge Developers User Group will convene on December 3 to talk about the ELK stack and other topics. Register now to save your place.

The London Elasticsearch Meetup will convene on December 10 at 6:30 PM. This one always fills up quickly, so register now to save your place.

United States

New meetup: The Phoenix Elasticsearch Meetup will convene on December 10 to share some tasty food and beverage and talk shop. No talks this time, just conviviality. Register now to join us and so we have an idea of how many humans will require snacks.

New meetup: The Washington DC Elasticsearch Meetup for December will be hosted by Comcast on the 11th and will feature Bhaskar Karambelkar, Tech Lead at Verizon, on Scaling Elasticsearch in Production. Register now to save your place.

The Monitoring NYC Meetup group will be talking full stack monitoring and alerting, featuring Elasticsearch, on December 2. Register now to save your place.

The Wilmington, NC DevOps & IT Meetup will get together on December 4 to talk the ELK Stack. Register now to save your place.

Where to Find You

PSST! If you're a regular reader of This Week in Elasticsearch, a.k.a TWIES, you're thinking of skipping this section. You may even be thinking to yourself, yes of course I will drop a note on Twitter when I am giving a talk on all things ELK. That's awesome, because we'd like to showcase every meetup, conference presentation and workshop on Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana happening worldwide. And now, we've made it even easier for you to get support for your meetup!

Head on over to our meetups page! (And we'll still totally send you swag if you're giving a talk on anything ELKy at a conference.)

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: